We have a puppet server in westcoast (li823-33.members.linode.com)

Following are steps how to install and configure the puppet server:

rpm -ivh https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-6.noarch.rpm

yum -y install puppetserver

service puppetserver start

service puppetserver stop

edit /etc/puppet/puppet.conf

[main]

• # The Puppet log directory. # The default value is '$vardir/log'.

• logdir = /var/log/puppet

• # Where Puppet PID files are kept.

• # The default value is '$vardir/run'.

• rundir = /var/run/puppet

• # Where SSL certificates are kept.

• # The default value is '$confdir/ssl'.

• ssldir = $vardir/ssl

• #put your hostname in here.

• dns_alt_names = <PUPPET SERVER HOSTNAME>

• always_cache_features=true

• environmentpath=/etc/puppet/environments/

[agent]

• # The file in which puppetd stores a list of the classes

• # associated with the retrieved configuratiion.  Can be loaded in

  # the separate puppet executable using the --loadclasses

• # option.

• # The default value is '$confdir/classes.txt'.

• classfile = $vardir/classes.txt

• # Where puppetd caches the local configuration.  An

• # extension indicating the cache format is added automatically.

• # The default value is '$confdir/localconfig'.

• localconfig = $vardir/localconfig

Make new environments dir in /etc/puppet/

cd /etc/puppet

mkdir environments

cd environments

mkdir production

cd production/

touch environment.conf

mkdir manifests

mkdir modules

cd manifests

add the client.pp files and restart the puppetserve. Install some modules:

puppet module install puppetlabs-stdlib --version 4.20.0
puppet module install puppet-selinux --version 0.5.0
puppet module install maestrodev-wget --version 1.7.3
puppet module install ceritsc-yum --version 0.9.8
puppet module install camptocamp-rsyncd --version 1.0.15
puppet module install puppetlabs-rsync --version 0.4.0

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You could also install the puppetserver using docker:

1. rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

2. yum -y install docker-io

3. vim /etc/sysconfig/docker

4. other_args="--insecure-registry li823-33.members.linode.com:5000"

5. service restart docker

6. docker pull li823-33.members.linode.com:5000/centos68puppetserver

7. docker images ==> this will give you the base image we download from our docker registry

8. run the images by: docker run -d -it --net=host <image id>

9. docker ps ==> get the container ID

10. docker attach containerID ==> enter the container

11. vim /etc/puppet/puppet.conf to change the alt host name to your current server's hostname.

12. puppet cert clean --all

13. service puppetserver restart

14. make sure the puppetserver is running and all the clients can connect to the puppetserver (clients might need to regenerate their client certificate.<https://docs.puppet.com/pe/latest/agent_cert_regen.html>)

15. crtl+p crtl+q to detach from the container.